I just got finished reading a post in Venturebeat.com about a company named ReplyYes, which just raised $6.5 million dollars and whose website is ReplyYes.com The domain name has an original registration date in 2008 but was deleted for non-payment of renewal fees on March 27, 2012 by a former registrant. The domain sat unregistered until for over 3 years until May 12, 2015 when it was hand … [Read more...]
A Checklist for Naming A StartUp
Dharmesh Shah wrote an article on Inbound.org that detailed his checklist for choosing a start up name. Shah writes he has been thinking about naming and branding for 20 years. He also mentions some of the data points he looked at when coming up with his checklist. He looked at over 4,000 start up names, he looked at length of name, starting letters, TLD, etc... From the article: The … [Read more...]
Tuft & Needle Mattress Startup Buy Premium Domain Name TN.com
On the morning of September 4, 2015 I had a pretty good hunch that the premium 2 letter domain name TN.com likely sold and now we have confirmation that it did and to who! TN.com is now redirecting to TuftAndNeedle.com, which is a startup founded in 2013 that offers mattresses that are delivered to your door in a box. They are the buyers of the domain name TN.com. Tuft And Needle has the … [Read more...]
CB Insights: Covers World’s Most Popular Non-.com Startup Domains, but Confused on New gTLD’s
CB Insights.com which covers the startup/ venture capital markets published an interesting post entitled "The Non-Dotcom Bubble: The World’s Most Popular Startup Domains Other Than .Com" The story contains a chart tracking the most popular Non-.Com domain name extensions for funded tech companies from 2010-2015. Of course since the first new gTLD didn't launch until 2014, none are reflected … [Read more...]
Domainer Merlin Kauffman’s Soothe Startup Picks up $10.6M In New Funding
Merlin Kauffman is a domain name investor and president of True Magic, LLC which owns many great domain names like Exclusive.com, Lookup.com, Conferences.com, FileSharing.com, Volunteers.com, and Tabloids.com to mention a few. Merlin is also the Founder and CEO of Soothe which is an on-demand massage service which launched in April 2013. The company just picked up a cool $10.6 million in new … [Read more...]
European Start Up Accelerator Reveals Latest Startups and a lot of them use the .io extension
Tech Crunch did a story on Entrepreneur First which is a European accelerator for start-ups along the lines of the popular Y Combinator. Entrepreneur First is the best place for Europe’s top technical individuals to meet and build world-changing startups in London. We select purely on the basis of technical talent, so you can apply before you have a team or an idea. Our intensive 7-month … [Read more...]
TechCrunch Covers TheDrop.Club: By Twitch/Exec co-founder and Y Combinator Partner Justin Kan
Techcrunch.com just covered TheDrop.club, what they describe as a "Digg/Reddit/Hacker News/Product Hunt for electronic dance music" The site is Thedrop.club and "Twitch/Exec co-founder and Y Combinator partner Justin Kan told TechCrunch: “I wanted something to create a constant stream of new electronic music tracks every day" TechCrunch.com goes on to describe the site: "Built on … [Read more...]